Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!xanth!wilso_d From: wilso_d@cs.odu.edu (DeWitte Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: Radio Shack personnel Summary: Ignorance is Rampent... Message-ID: <9410@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Date: 1 Jul 89 04:43:22 GMT References: <1129@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va. Lines: 56 In article <1129@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU>, wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (Gang of Three) writes: > > It's interesting that the means of discovering that there *is* a hard drive > available for the 4 is so convoluted. It's not mentioned in the Model 4 > page; seems they would push the hard drive with the computer. > > -- Marcus Actually, I'm wondering even why they still sell the Model IV's. I have two of them, and if I even dared to sell one, I would not be able to get more than $200 for it, and yet they advertise them for something like $1099 or something like that? I used to work there, and we had this one guy that sold color computers all around Christmas - one day I had the opportunity to listen to him talking to a customer, "Oh, yes ma'am.. these computers hook right up to a TV, and they DON'T EVEN USE SOFTWARE!" - Needless to say, she was thrilled at the thought of never having to invest more money into the machine. I wasn't there after Christmas, so I didn't get to see any of them come back. With the price of hard disks always going down, they ought to shove one right in the upper bay of the Model IV, put two DSDD floppies in the bottom and still sell it for around $1000. I'm sure that would even be considered high based on the fact that it is a non-msdos machine. -- DeWitte Wilson Old Dominion University Sysop - The Mod III BBS 804-424-1215 [300=>2400] 8N1 "We are the keepers of the Sacred Words. Ni ... Peng ... and Neee ... Wom!" Subject: Re: Radio Shack personnel Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy Distribution: usa Summary: Ignorance is Rampent... References: <1129@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU> In article <1129@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU>, wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (Gang of Three) writes: > > It's interesting that the means of discovering that there *is* a hard drive > available for the 4 is so convoluted. It's not mentioned in the Model 4 > page; seems they would push the hard drive with the computer. > > -- Marcus Actually, I'm wondering even why they still sell the Model IV's. I have two of them, and if I even dared to sell one, I would not be able to get more than $200 for it, and yet they advertise them for something like $1099 or something like that? I used to work there, and we had this one guy that sold color computers all around Christmas - one day I had the opportunity to listen to him talking to a customer, "Oh, yes ma'am.. these computers hook right up to a TV, and they DON'T EVEN USE SOFTWARE!" - Needless to say, she was thrilled at the thought of never having to invest more money into the machine. I wasn't there after Christmas, so I didn't get to see any of them come back. With the price of hard disks always going down, they ought to shove one right in the upper bay of the Model IV, put two DSDD floppies in the bottom and still sell it for around $1000. I'm sure that would even be considered high based on the fact that it is a non-msdos machine.